Dragon’s Dogma 2 has landed, with all of the highs and lows you would possibly count on from Hideaki Itsuno’s newest action-RPG. Nonetheless, for all that the sport has loads of positives as an total expertise, Dragon’s Dogma 2 PC efficiency has been a reasonably horrible.
The issue with Dragon’s Dogma 2 is two fold. For a begin, the sport has usually been dogged by stability points, with common crashes dumping you out the sport. Maybe much more annoyingly, it has persistently horrible body fee stability points – one thing that significantly plague our expertise when writing our Dragon’s Dogma 2 overview, with massive quantities of stutter and body fee dropping to very low ranges, even on very high-end {hardware}.
So, what’s happening? Nicely, there appear to be two components at play. The primary is that the sport makes use of quite a lot of CPU processing to mannequin every character within the sport. This in flip means open areas with few characters run wonderful however in densely populated areas, equivalent to main cities, the CPU will get overloaded, inflicting an enormous bottleneck to the general system.
That is the type of expertise we had and that has been cited by IGN, which acquired an official response from Capcom stating that:
“In Dragon’s Dogma 2, a considerable amount of CPU utilization is allotted to every character and dynamically calculates the influence of their bodily presence in numerous environments. In sure conditions the place quite a few characters seem concurrently, the CPU utilization may be very excessive and should have an effect on the body fee,” a Capcom consultant informed IGN. “We’re conscious that in such conditions, settings that scale back GPU load might at the moment have a restricted impact; nevertheless, we’re wanting into methods to enhance efficiency sooner or later.”
This would appear to recommend that customers with a very highly effective CPU wouldn’t have these body fee drop points. Nonetheless, our personal testing used a wide range of CPUs on completely different programs, together with 8 core/16 thread chips and we nonetheless had theses points. Likewise, computerbase.de exams have been carried out utilizing an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and nonetheless had these points.
As such, the opposite main motive why the sport should be struggling a lot – aside from it merely not being a nicely optimized PC port but – is that there are at the moment no official Recreation Prepared drivers from Nvidia, with AMD and Intel solely now releasing their respective drivers. Whereas these drivers are likely to solely supply minor efficiency enhancements, it’s attainable there’s some essential optimization that could possibly be finished on the motive force facet that would unclog Dragon’s Dogma 2 efficiency points and enhance stability.
The upshot, then, is that except you’re fortunate and your PC has simply the proper mixture of {hardware} that you just don’t expertise these efficiency points, you’ll have to attend till there’s a patch launched for the sport or some Recreation Prepared drivers are launched for the sport to get a smoother extra secure expertise. For the time being, you’ll be able to try our Dragon’s Dogma 2 finest settings information to learn the way to get essentially the most from the sport in its present state.
